Forty-Second Street /42nd Street Levering, Kate performer Elder, David performer Hull, Mylinda performer Giattino, Melissa performer Jones, Jennifer performer Kieh, Dontee performer Theatrical Performance 2001-05-02 Ford Center for the Performing Arts Through 1/2/2005. Broadway revival of "Forty-Second Street" wins Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical. Original Direction and dances by Gower Champion. Directed by Mark Bramble with musical staging and new choreography by Randy Skinner; Asst. Chor. Kelli Barclay. Starring Michael Cumsty, Christine Ebersole Randy Skinner receives Tony Award Nomination for Best choreography; and a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Choreography "Whatever it is about tap dancing that includes euphoria, it's in full group glory here, with 50 performers tapping madly away to such Harry Warren-Al Dubin standards as 'Lullaby of Broadway,' and '42nd Street.' But even smaller-scale numbers, 'We're in the Money,' 'Shadow Waltz,' 'Young and Healthy' among them." "Mylinda Hull and Jonathan Freeman do a funny song-and-dance routine to 'Shuffle Off to Buffalo' while Mary Testa spices things up with usual boisterous comic presence." From the performers biographies: Kate Levering in the role of Peggy Sawyer dedicated her performance to the memory of her tap teacher LaVerne Krei. David Elder (Billy Lawler) played Tapping Timothy Harper in the national tour of Damn Yankees. Mylinda Hull in "Crazy for You" Jennifer Jones, the first African-American Rockette Melissa Giattino thanks her mother for teaching her to tap. (Robert Feldberg, "Tap-dancing street received a return visit" New York Pulse 5/3/01.) Performing Arts Encyclopedia http://www.loc.gov/performingarts New York Public Library: CATNYP: Dance Collection: Tap Dancing. New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Gregory Hines Collection of American Tap Dance (). Tap Dance America http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/tda/tda-home.html tda IHAS 151216 loc.music.tda.745